George hart



` @geiten tsrtrgstmtt @fhrt Letters .Patent-1Y0. 75,012, dated March', 1868.

IMPROVED TRAVEL'LER POR FURLING SAILSC @In Stlgehnle referrer! tu in these ieter uteut Hnr making im nf tige same.

TO ALL WHO IT MAY CONGERN:

, Beit known thatl, GEORGE HART, of New Bedfordrin the county of Bristol, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a. newanld improved Traveller, to be used in connection with Devices for Furling and Reeting Sails; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. fallend exa-ct description thereof, reference being had to the neeompnnying drawings, and to the letters of eferencemnrlied thereon.

My invention consists in the application of friction-rolls to travellers for hauling in and out the sails of vessels:

- Figure Lis ai perspective view of a traveller with friction-rolls applied.

FiguieQ is a perspective View of a. portion of' a. guide and traveller.

Fig. 1. A1 is the traveller; B'B B', friction-rolls. Fig. 2. A2 is the traveller; C2, section of guide; D2 is a grooved iva-y in guide for the traveller to slide in; EZ, projection in end of section of guide to fit into e. corresponding groove in. end of another section; F2, groove in the other end of'section of gide forthe reception of projection in another section. The sections forming the guide are constructed of metal, in the manner herein described, and are sccnnely fastened to the upper side of the yard, Iforming a. continuons grooved passage, in which the traveller plays freely, and without danger ofjnmming.

This invention is particularly applicable to Wyatts improved mode of furlingnnd reefing sails, for which a. patent was granted, the 18th day-of June, 1867. y

In this device I do not confine myselito any particular' number of rolls, or telfmaking the guide in sections; but i What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-y A traveller, with friction-rolls, running in n guide; for hauling in and'out square sails, as herein set forth and described. v

GEORGE HART.

Witnesses:

JNoeDAvIs, TH. E. M. WHITE.- 

